By Peter Costantini
Transmitted to AlterPresse on May 31, 2011 Across the Haitian political spectrum, education has emerged as a central theme in plans for reconstruction and future development of the country.
In his inaugural speech, President Michel Joseph Martelly proposed providing free education for all children. And former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, when he returned to Haiti recently, said that he hoped to make education the main focus of his efforts.
The education of children is rightfully their primary concern. But in a nation where 55 percent of adults cannot read (...)

Press release of World Association for Christian Communication – Caribbean Region
On March 16, 2011
WACC-Caribe wishes to express its deep concern for the threats made to journalist and Goupe Medialternatif Coordinator Gotson Pierre when he was a member of a panel on the presidential debate last March 9 organized by the GIAP (Group of Intervention in Public Affairs, French acronym).
We are well aware of the destruction caused by followers of some parties in Port-au- Prince and several other cities of the country last December 8 and 9 who among other acts, harassed journalist Esther (...)

Note from Word Association for Christian Communication (WACC)
Toronto, Canada, 14 Mar 2011
Alarming threats made against journalist Gotson Pierre and freedom of expression.
The online news agency Alterpress has been threatened in the person of its director Gotson Pierre, WACC has learnt in a communiqué from another regional partner, Espacinsular in the Dominican Republic.
AlterPresse is a leading member of Groupe Médialternatif, both working for greater democracy, transparency, and accountability in Haiti. Following the earthquake disaster last year, both groups pledged support for (...)

Declaration of Groupe Médialternatif, 11 March 2011
Groupe Médialternatif takes very seriously the threats made by presidential candidate Joseph Michel Martelly against Gotson Pierre, editor and journalist for AlterPresse, the group’s online news agency, during a televised debate on March 9, 2011.
Related to a dossier of general public interest concerning debts owed by Martelly to U.S. banks, when asked about his management capacity and his ability to handle his eventual responsibility, the candidate flushed with anger and blurted out: “Let him bring them [the questions] on! They sent him (...)

By James Morrell
Submitted to AlterPresse on January 14, 2010
Many have noticed that the finding of the experts’ mission in favor of Martelly rests on a razor-thin margin of 3,225 votes out of the 1.1 million received by all candidates, or 0.3 percent. Making the conclusion even more precarious, an analysis of the 17,220 votes for Célestin that the experts disallowed shows at most 12,316 to be related to the issue of excessive votes for one candidate, leaving the other 4,904 resting on various technical issues. If, by some vicissitude, these technical exclusions were overturned for (...)

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